|
Post by Gamesoul Master on Dec 21, 2006 18:53:33 GMT -5
@mika: Yeah, sometimes I wonder the same thing. For me, I won't be even using an emulator for a system unless I own or owned it. I got my first SNES about... 15 years ago. I still have that original unit, in addition to two others (one of which I got for my dad). I technically own at least two of almost every system I play (one for me, one for my dad). A lot of times, if I play a game I don't own on an emulator, I'll buy it if I like it, and delete it if I don't like it. Also... I'm not sure why, but it's sometimes more fun to play on an emulator... for instance, the use of savestates, and also for hacking (which is fun... like making "new" characters in FFVI).
Although I'm sure... many others use emulators for... different... reasons. I know that there are others that feel similarly to me though, even if not for the same *exact* reasons...
Saturn... yeah, none of the emulators out are all too much to look at. It doesn't matter all too much to me anyway. My smallest game collection is probably my Saturn collection. I'm just glad my Saturn (and all my older systems too) still works.
|
|
|
Post by patrickp on Dec 21, 2006 20:07:29 GMT -5
You know, I wonder what kind of age distribution snes emulation (or emulation in gerenal) users have. As in, have they actually played the real deal on the their childhood, or are they simply too young for that? The PSX generation, if you will. It's quite possible that they don't have any experience on the real snes, thus they assume that what zsnes displays is infact what it's supposed to look like. My guess is that this is probably true for some part of the users atleast. Huh! I never played on any games consoles when I was a kid - there weren't any! In fact, we had black & white TV and the radios I remember were all valve ones. Computers? There were probably a few massive valve-based mainframes with about the computing power of an electric kettle, but most people didn't even know such things existed, let alone have experience of them.
|
|
|
Post by emulover on Dec 22, 2006 2:34:56 GMT -5
My emulation targets are as follows:
the reason i want to emulate the consoles and games i own are because i dont want to go through the hassle of finding the games, hooking up the system, wires everywhere.
Having 20 different controllers and lightguns other add-ons all over the place...
emulation gives me the following option (not yet fully accomplished)
all systems and games in 1 directory on my pc.
all games controled by 4 wireless xbox360 controllers(currently by 2 WIRED ps2 controllers)
all games controled by 2 highly accurate LCD lightguns (which i dont own yet cuz lik sang went bankrupt), as we all know normal lightguns wont work on lcd/plasma/projector PS. these lightguns are also compatible with xbox and ps2
all racing games could either be controlled by the xbox360 wireless steering weel or the much better logitech g25 racing wheel (both of which i dont have)
Being able to pause at any time by just openening the menu bar of the emulator.
By following this path i can focus my money on my pc, harddiskspace, lots of ram, fast cpu and i dont need to put a lot into the graphics card.
current gen games i try to play on current gen consoles.
I wont need GC emulation because all my games will work on the wii.
finally some systems are better when emulated.
Playstation1 > the playstation lens is crap and different revisions have different effects on games, also psx games in ps2 mode sometimes looks wierd. i dont count ps2 backwards compatibility as real backwards compatibility
conclusion:
I only have to buy accessories once. with CD based systems i can often play from my original disc if needed. i can focus all my money into a single object
|
|
|
Post by Ultima on Dec 22, 2006 9:19:43 GMT -5
|
|
|
Post by psicomaniaco on Dec 22, 2006 9:26:15 GMT -5
Playstation1 > the playstation lens is crap and different revisions have different effects on games, also psx games in ps2 mode sometimes looks wierd. i dont count ps2 backwards compatibility as real backwards compatibility Thats so true! I have two PSX here: an old 1001 (yeah, that old! ) and a PSONE. For some reason, some games like Marvel vc Capcom and Front Mission 3 are better on the 1001 But when I play Final Fantasy games in it, the CGs skips like hell, but they are perfect on the PSone. About the ps2 backwards compatibility, I think most games have problems because of the texture filtering, but you can disable that one. What gets on my nerves is that some PS1 games crash on the PS2. Like Xenogears, that crashes on the Deus battle if he uses his tail attack!
|
|
|
Post by Gamesoul Master on Dec 22, 2006 20:09:40 GMT -5
Ultima: Yes indeed... I already got that. And... I'm very happy with it of course. Like you said... the WIP releases worked towards it, but... this release is so nice.
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Dec 23, 2006 14:38:14 GMT -5
Haha patrick. You definitely aren't too young then. Hmm, ZSNES 1.50 eh. Have to take a look at that too.
|
|
|
Post by Melanogaster on Dec 23, 2006 21:30:57 GMT -5
Haha patrick. You definitely aren't too young then. Yeah... Seems like he's the Lord indeed... Hmm, ZSNES 1.50 eh. Have to take a look at that too. Too bad Netplay is disabled, now... Gonna have to keep running two versions, here.
|
|
|
Post by patrickp on Dec 24, 2006 6:16:46 GMT -5
Hmph! Young whippersnappers!
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Dec 24, 2006 19:29:17 GMT -5
You kids and your rock 'n roll!
Looks like the 1.50 doesn't have anything interesting compared to the latest wip, as far as I can remember anyway. But it's nice that there is development, even if it's mostly transparent to users. And yeah, I have 1.42 I think for the netplay stashed away for the time being.
|
|